The number of children in the United States diagnosed with autism may be significantly higher than previously thought, information that could lead to a reconsideration of how health care resources are allocated, according to a new University of Iowa analysis published in the “Journal of the American Medical Association” (“JAMA”).

The College of Public Health’s Business Leadership Network has awarded grants to six Iowa social service and health care organizations to help them develop initiatives to improve the health of Iowans of all ages.

The University of Iowa College of Public Health has been working with the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, gathering and analyzing data collected during numerous studies the foundation funds to find a treatment for the disease.

J. Brooks Jackson begins his new role as University of Iowa vice president for medical affairs and dean of the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Jackson shares his thoughts on leadership, academic medicine, Iowa, and the opportunity to lead UI Health Care.

Rare intraoperative brain recordings suggest the existence of a new brain connection that may be a target for improving cognitive symptoms in Parkinson’s disease.

James Torner, director of the Iowa Stroke Registry in the University of Iowa College of Public Health, examines why Iowa is one of the few states to see its rate of death by stroke decrease in recent years.

The Sioux City Journal profiles Linda Kalin, director of the Iowa's Poison Control Center, who has been named an Iowa Public Health Hero by the UI College of Public Health.

UI neurologist Edgar Samaniego and Santiago Ortega-Gutiérrez, director of neurointerventional surgery, are taking their fifth trip to South America to perform surgeries and train local providers. This time they’re going to Hospital Eugenio Espejo in Quito, Ecuador—the hospital where Samaniego did his first clinical rotations as a medical student.

A new collaboration between the UI College of Nursing and the Department of Theatre Arts is helping students from both put classroom theory into practice.

In support of its goal to build high-impact neuroscience research, the Iowa Neuroscience Institute (INI) has awarded its first Accelerator Grants. The four funded proposals represent a mix of foundational, translational, and clinical research. They focus on neuroscience topics that are new or that add value to existing research by branching out in a new direction.

The UI College of Public Health is working with the Michael J. Fox Foundation on a new clinical trial for a cancer drug that could be used to help people who have Parkinson’s Disease.

A study by Kang Zhao, assistant professor of management sciences in the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business, shows that participation in a smoking-cessation online community can help smokers quit, and that their level of activity in said can predict whether they can successfully kick the habit.